February 24, 2004

Sender authentication to fight spam

Microsoft unveils antispam technology Microsoft will be proposing Caller ID to validate the source address of email. Microsoft will be releasing a sender-authentication plugin to Sendmail.

"Sendmail will incorporate a "selection of sender authentication technologies" into its open-source Mail Transfer Agent (MTA), including a technology called DomainKeys championed by Yahoo and "proposals put forward by Microsoft and others", Sendmail said."

Posted by Gwen at February 24, 2004 01:43 PM